Healing Gunner Planned?

[Gardes]

Could be high damage per shot but low dps 'healer' where the healing gimmick is throwing down vials on the ground to make very high regen rate small aoe (the size of of the ABC waymark or slightly bigger). That way the play style would be setting up heal and support spots and then after that you just keep dpsing until you need to replace the heal and support spots because the tanks need to move to the other side of the arena. that way keeping the tank alive is up to the tank (he has to find a way to stay on the spot as much as possible while weaving through aoes). Will have extra skills for emergency and burst healing like throwing a special vial to dissipate the heal spot and heal the tank for massive hp in the process. I could imagine the tank groaning when they this healer in dungeons though, lol.

[Blazer]

Healing gunner sounds like Chemist, which would be bad ass.

[Tiggy]

Grala so you're saying a tank makes sense since it's been one before. Good work.

Come on guys. They can make it be be whatever they want. They don't have a specific trope to fit to here since DRK has been many things over the years.

[Titor]

I really hope for chemist as healer.... So much.

[odie]

I really hope it is agent like the picture. I love the gun art. And I don't think healing bullets are odd. The healers already have dps skills so they would have offensive bullets, but imagine firing a healing bullet across the stage to reach your team mate as it explodes into healing magic when it reaches them. It's a fantasy game. It's totally possible and I find it really exciting

[Cynfael]

Personally I'm not really excited by the idea of a healing gun class, but that doesn't mean that they might not find a fun way to make it work somehow. Guess we'll find out soon either way!

[Hillo]

I really hope it isn't "agent." To me, it doesn't fit FF or its lore (it was used with one character, but so what?). The idea of a healing/gunner class just seems ridiculous. I suppose you could argue for chemist/calculator, but even that always sounded off to me. Overall, chemist sounds better than agent though.

[RyuDragnier]

It'll probably be Chemist. In most of the FF games, Chemist (they can't call it Alchemist here) usually has a gun, and uses items for healing, some they make themselves. X-2 mixed it up even more with them pulling healing items out of NOWHERE to heal themselves and the party. Considering how SE likes to make things up on the go, it'll either be like Ninja where we have set manual mixes that create things depending on the mix, it'll be them pulling things out of nowhere, or maybe they'll actually use inventory healing items and make them godly (seriously SE, why is this the ONLY FF game where items are useless?).

[Cynfael]

It'll probably be Chemist. In most of the FF games, Chemist (they can't call it Alchemist here) usually has a gun, and uses items for healing, some they make themselves. X-2 mixed it up even more with them pulling healing items out of NOWHERE to heal themselves and the party. Considering how SE likes to make things up on the go, it'll either be like Ninja where we have set manual mixes that create things depending on the mix, it'll be them pulling things out of nowhere, or maybe they'll actually use inventory healing items and make them godly (seriously SE, why is this the ONLY FF game where items are useless?).

Yoshi doesn't like the idea of battle depending on consumables. That's why Ninja won't be having a Throw command. If Chemist becomes a thing, it's more likely that items appear out of thin aether, as it were.

[Fyrebrand]

Dark Knight's most defining, signature trait is that it always has some attack ability which sacrifice's your own HP. That's pretty much the polar opposite of what a Tank should be doing. Aside from that, some games give Dark Knight an assortment of offensive debuff skills, but nothing that particularly lends itself toward protection, damage mitigation, or attracting enemy attention. Heavy armor doesn't mean anything either. Dragoon wears heavy armor, and it's not a tank.

Anyhow, regarding Yoshi-P's 007 shirt... did he actually say it was a hint about a new class? Or is it just a shirt? If James Bond is intended to be a clue, then I would guess it is a gun-based class that depends on sophisticated gadgets or tools. So, maybe Machinist, but also could be Chemist or just plain Gunner.